ProDave

As it is a small flat, I would first unscrew and inspect the connections at every socket. That in itself will tell you a lot about the...

This is where communication between you and the tester before the test is important. If he is sent to "test" than that is what he does...

The meter tails through separate holes is fixed by taking them out and putting a hacksaw cut between the 2 holes then replacing them...

IT was a DIY Joe additional spurred socket. Thankfully not far away in a stud and plasterboard wall, so correct cable pulled through...

Doing simple little non notifiable jobs is not all plain sailing. This from today's "change a few switch and socket fronts" job.

It's commercial customers, who expect you to send them an invoice that are the usual slow payers. A card terminal would not speed that...

At the level the OP is intending to operate that won't trouble him. DEFINIELY stay below the turnover threshold for VAT registration...

If they are just twisted together, chances are on a light fitting that you have not yet touched, they have come untwisted. All you can...

I'm with Andy on this. Fill one out by hand and give to the customer, job done and complete. Anything else means going home, entering...

It was wanting a low running cost house, the fact it is green was a bonus. There is no mains gas here so the choice is oil, LPG or...

Also miss reporting. There has been a problem up here with coastal erosion over this last winter, most notably golf courses built on...

I will just add that all the "experts" lose 99.9% of their credability as far as I am concerned when they try and tell us that burning...

Well I built my new well insulated house all electric with a heat pump. Better than burning the roughly 2000 litres of Kerosene that we...

Mine is sub £100 with Direct Line business.

I would say you still want PL insurance, unless you want to foot the bill if you damage something in a customers house while working...